Brilliant
sunshine,
very blue sky.

Occasional
car speeds down
quiet streets.

Everyone
has places
to go.

Everybody
has things
to do.

Overbooked
overscheduled,
a daily thing.

Too little time
to get from
Point A

to Point B
and arrive at
Point C on time.

How does
a person
catch up

in a world
where today
feels like yesterday?

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.